Is Electronic Smoking Really the Answer to Quit Cigarette Smoking?

Before we answer the question, “Can we really stop cigarette smoking through electronic cigars?” let us have a rundown of what truly is an electronic cigar.

An electronic cigarette also dubbed as e-cigarette is a battery-operated piece of stick device that contains liquid nicotine dissolved in a solution consisting of water and propylene glycol. They are also designed to look like real cigarettes with white cylindrical body, brown filter complete with red-glowing tip. The twist—this one has a rechargeable battery, a plastic mouthpiece and a heating element.

E-cigarettes work by puffing on the end of it, causing the battery to heat up the nicotine inside. The process then creates a vapour inhaled into the lungs resulting into ‘vaping.’ This so-called vaping is characterized with a sensation of smoke inside the mouth just like when a person is actually smoking cigarettes.

Electronic Smoking

While many people opt for e-cigars to help them quit the vice and many claimed to have successfully backed out of the habit… well, they are the very ones who are still addicted to nicotine, a substance still found inside the e-cigars. Hence, transferring your attention to e-cigarettes doesn’t help at all! They are poor substitutes for the real cigarettes. Furthermore, according to the studies, several things were also revealed about these devices:

Carcinogens nitrosamines found in tobaccos were found in half of the test samples during the research.

There’s no such thing as no nicotine in cartridges though their amounts are minimal compared to the cartridges with it.

Most of the samples bear anabasine, myosmine and β-nicotyrine, tobacco-particular substances which are harmful for humans.

There are a lot of other ways to help yourself to quit smoking if you are a smoker. You can go through counselling and support groups which are preferably human friendly than these so-called ‘substitutes.’